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DÜRER, Albrecht: St Jerome by the Pollard Willow

🖼 St Jerome by the Pollard Willow, 1512
Drypoint
208 × 185 cm
Boston, USA

Soft light bathes a scholar hunched over texts within a contemplative wilderness, rendered with meticulous detail and delicate engraving technique. Dürer's 1512 masterpiece transforms the saint into an intellectual humanist figure, merging spiritual devotion with Renaissance learning during a pivotal moment in Northern European art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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